The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1887-01-26
Intercollegiate Prohibition Con.
YentiOn.
CLEVELAND, OHIO

most SlgnluCdut COuVGutlOn l0lQ
n Cleveland for many years was
n Intercollegiate Prohibition
Convention which was held there
tbe 3rd and 4th inst. More may
ha expected as an outcome Of this
Convention than any meeting of
Tacent date, because it is the right
step in the right direction support
cd by brain, and vigor, and Justice
and the whole moral force of the
At this meeting were present
students, professors, and popular
men and women from twelve States
and thirty two Institutions of learn
ing.
The Christian women of the land
need to be grateful that their sons
are rising in bodies to do what
their husbands and fathers could
not or would not or dared not do,
or at least they have shrunk from
doing it so far.
The purpose of this convention
was to organize thorough co-opera-
tive system in all the Colleges and
Institutions of learning in the coun-
try in the interest of Prohibition
to try to organize a Prohibition
Club in every such Institution,
and have regular annual conven-
tons, at which plans will be dis
cussed and mapped out by which
the most effectual work can be done
in destroying the drink traffic, and
thus save the whole country from
its greatest and most threatening
evil. M
All the sessions were marked
throughout by the greatest enthu-
siasm and by timely and pointed
speeches. On the first evening
committees on Credentials and
Permanent Organization were ap-
pointed. A constitution was re.
ported by the committee. This or
ganization will cooperate with the
Prohibition party. Regular head
quarters will be opened funds for
the purpose were recommended, Of
which the sum of $215 was raised
at once.
All business was transacted with
characteristic earnestness and con-
fdence. Old line prohibitionists
such as Hon. A. A. Barker, Mrs. J. G.
Stowe, Miss Henrietta G. Moore. Mrs
Woodbridge, Pro. A. A. Hopkins
and last, but by no means least, Prof
W. T. Mills were there and did effec'
tual work. Letters were read from
Hon. G. s. Wolfe, DIR. Pentecost,
Joseph Cook, and others.
The following officers for the
ensuing year were eleeted.
President, Rev, Herrick johnson
D. D., President of Mccormack
Theological Seminary (Chicago)
LIST Vice President, Julius H. See
ley, D. D., L. L. D., President O.
Amherst College; End Vice Presi
dent, R. S. Abernethy, D. D., Pres
ident of Rutherford College IN. c.,
Secretary, Walter Thos. Mills, A
B., of Wooster University Treasur
er, 6. E. Rowe, of Madison Univer
ty(Wis.) Advisory Board-Josept
Cook, Boston, Mass; Rev.T.De Wit
Talmage, Brooklyn N. Y. President
Hopkins, Emory College, Oxford
Ca; Prof. Forbes, Rochester N. Y.
Miss Frances E. Willard, Evanston
III. Others are to be added by the
Executive Committee.
1t was also recommended that ar
address be iseued to the young mer
OF America, and Prof. w. G., Frost
Joseph Cook, and Prof. D. M. Banks
Ct Opelika, Ala, were named as 6
Committee to prepare and publish
the address.
To say that Prof. w. 7. Mills il
secretary, is saying a great deal fol
the Interest and success that will
attend the movement. He is very
appropriately called the "little
giant. 1t is wonderful that 30
small a man is possessed of so mas
slve an intellect. The acknowledg.
ed ability and the national reputa-
ton of the officers of the convention
will carry much weight and
60 TAR to prove the character and
stability of the movement. The